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KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS — BY TIRDAD DERAKHSHANI
Published · reached Usenet March 8, 2005
BY TIRDAD DERAKHSHANI
Knight Ridder Newspapers
(KRT) - Perhaps reacting to a shooting last week outside a Manhattan radio station involving posse members for rappers 50 Cent and former protege The Game, the Rev. Al Sharpton has called for a 90-day radio and TV ban of any performer who uses violence, especially to hype albums.
"There has to be a way to step in and regulate what's going on with the airwaves and with violence," Sharpton told the New York Daily News.
Sharpton wants the Federal Communications Commission and the big boys of radio broadcasting to back his ban plan. "We may not be able to stop people from shooting, but we can stop people from profiting from the violence," said Sharpton. You tell `em, Al.